Bracket



Feb. 16 1926. 1,573,246

H. T. HOLLAND BRACKET Filed Nov. 17 1923 Patented Feb. 16, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

v HENRY T'UFFTS HOLLAND, F WINFIELD, NEW YORK.

BRACKET.

Application filed November 1'2, 182-3. Serial No.

.tures of construction whereby it may be readily applied or detached to a wall or other supporting structure and firmly held in place thereon.

Another object of the invention to pro- .vide a novel and improved supporting plate having wall engaging wedge portions whereby the bracket may be rigidly attacl ed to its 1 support.

The invention also contemplates a remow able bracket of this character winch will be very simple in construction, highly etlicient infuse, and winch may be inexpensively manufactured and sold.

The various features of novelty which characterize any invention are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this specification.

For a better understanding of the invention, however, and of the advantages possessed by 1t, reference should be had to the accompanying drawing and description in which I have illustrated and described what I now regard as the preferred embodiment of my invention.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved bracket in place on a wall or support;.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of one of the bracket supporting plates;

Fig. 3 is a detail view of the supporting plate, the same with its support being shown in longitudinal section;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line l-l of Fig. 3, and V Fig. '5 is a perspective view of one of the supporting plates inverted.

Referring specifically to the drawing, wherein like reference characters have been used to designate similar parts in all views,

numeral 5 denotes one of the support engaging plates of which there are a plurality as shown in Fig. 1. Each of these plates is provided with a closed longitudinal slot 6 having an enlargement 6 at one end thereof for the reception of a screw 7, it being understood that the screw 7 will be" inserted into the support after which the plate will be engaged thereon, the head of the screw being inserted through the slot enlargement 6 and slid upwardly from the slot.

Numeral 1 denotes the supporting portion which in the illustrated embodiment of the invention comprises a piece of U-shaped wire having opposed eyelets 2 in either side, the ends of the wire being bent laterally and rearwardly as shown at 3, the intermediate portion being adapted to receive tongues 4 of the plates 5 for pivotally attaching the supporting member 1 thereto.

The shelf supporting member 1 is placed and held in horizontal position by means of supporting members 8 of substantially V- shapcd tormation, the ends of which are bent as shown at 8 to provid 1 a bearing for cment of tongues 5) which are carried ally by the plate members It will be noted that the plate members last referred. to are provided with two tongues i). one for engagement with each end of the ti-shaped support 8.

From the foregoing description read in connection with the accompanying drawing, it will be readily seen that a very simple and cflicient bracket will be provided which may be readily attached to a wall or other support merely by engaging four screws therein. However, the structure so far recited is rather unsatisfactory in that the shelf will be more or less loosely attached to the wall and frequent tightening of the screws will. be necessary to maintain the stability of the bracket. In order to overcome this objec' tion, I have provided each of the plates 5 with prongs of wedge-shaped design decreasing in depth in the direction of the. enlargement (i These prongs are formed at the inner edges of the slots (3 and may be readily stamped out when the plate is formed, such flanges being denoted by the numeral 10.

The utility of this flanged construction will be readily appreciated and it will be evident that their formation and location is such that when the bracket is placed upon four screws carried by a support and weight is put upon. the bracket the downward imivemcnt of the plates 5 induced by the weight of the member upon the bracket will tend to wedge the prongs 10 into the support and stabilize the structure in addiof the be understood that the same may be employed with various forms of brackets. T he invention has been illustrated in concrete form in accordance with the patent statutes, but since various changes and modifications thereof will immediately suggest themselves to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of my invention, I reserve the rightto make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of the invention as claimed hereinafter.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A supporting member for brackets and the like having an elongated recess therein adapted to receive a headed wall or other support carried stud, and wall engaging means projecting laterally from the wall engaging face of said plate in parallelism with said recess and said means decreasing in depth toward one of its ends.

' 2. A supporting member for brackets and the like having an elongatedrecess therein.

adapted to receive a headed wall or other supportcarried stud, and wall engaging flan es on 03 'iosite sides of said recess aroectmg laterally from the wall engaging face of said plate in parallelism with said recess and said flanges decreasing in depth toward one of their ends.

3. The combination With a supporting member for brackets and the like and means for removably mounting the same on a wall or other support; of a cam-like means associated with said member and engageable with the wall for retaining said member in desireu position.

e. The combination with a supporting member for brackets and the like and means for removably mounting the same on a wall or other support; of means projecting from the wall engaging face of said member in the direction of its sliding movement and increasing in depth toward one end' for engaging the wall when the member is moved in the opposite direction to limit such movement and prevent pivotal movement of said member. V

The combination with a supporting member for brackets and the like and means for removably mounting the same on 'a wall or other support; of a flange projecting HENRY TUFFTS HOLLAND. 

